Sources hinted that the percentage of private vehicle owners, who responded to the scheme, was 80% among all types of vehicle owners who availed of the scheme. But, the figure is 20% for commercial ones, including the owners of vehicles like ambulances.

The General Court said the European Commission's 2016 regulatory amendment raising the limits on nitrogen oxide emissions from cars and vans went beyond the powers of the EU executive and broke EU human rights and other laws.

As an experiment to cut travel time and snarls, the Mumbai traffic police prohibited light and medium commercial vehicles from plying on the north-bound carriageway of WEH between 5pm and 9pm since Wednesday.

Dheeraj Hinduja, chairman at India’s second largest truck maker Ashok Leyland, prefers a low profile, but with managing director Vinod Dasari leaving at the end of the month, he says he’s become more “hands-on”.